Dear All, below is the hostcount for August 2002. The table shows an decrease since last month of over 170,000 (or 1,0%) to a total of almost 16,800,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe and surrounding areas. The "dk" domain shows the highest increase for August with approximately 130,000 hosts more than in July. Background information and more statistics are available at http://www.ripe.net/hostcount/ - Brief Notes on this Hostcount - The data for "it" and "ad" was reused because the remotely collected data was not usable. - Credits - I would like to thank all people who help me to create the hostcount every month by running a local count: ad Joan Marc Lauga am Hrant Dadivanyan at Gerhard Winkler be DNS-BE Registration Office ch Marcel Schneider cy Vasoula Papapetrou cz Jiri Orsag de Peter Koch dk Morten Christensen eg EUN Hostcount Admin es Fco. Sanchez Benavides fr hostmaster@nic.fr gr Dimitris Zisiadis hr Ivan Maric ie Mike Norris is Marius Olafsson it Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi li Marcel Schneider lt Daiva Tamulioniene lu Alain Frieden mk Goran Muratovski mt Robert Sultana no Havard Eidnes pl Mirek Luc pt Joao Pagaime ro Eugenie Staicut ru Andrey Dobrotsvetov sk Lubos Elias sm Maurizio Martinelli Daniele Vannozzi tr METU Hostcount Admin If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Kind regards, Paul Vlaar RIPE NCC RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Wed Aug 21 2002 This Count : Fri Sep 27 2002 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================== ad 136 277 198 79 0 ae 4388 57855 5523 52332 0 al 137 232 70 162 -48 am 1555 4547 1513 3034 -70 at 166720 455414 256678 198736 -154284 az 1573 2522 1174 1348 3 ba 1096 8422 2567 5855 14 be 81758 496249 113481 382768 -964 bg 1896 38809 7659 31150 627 bj 43 609 32 577 13 by 934 5868 2025 3843 19 ch 190049 891129 354952 536177 -14584 ci 509 3746 535 3211 0 cm 75 555 86 469 5 cv 51 232 191 41 1 cy 601 2657 501 2156 18 cz 115489 362996 152182 210814 -5854 de 3514127 13118800 10502205 2616595 -5118 dj 656 777 559 218 0 dk 244582 1193562 418352 775210 129578 dz 136 932 169 763 6 ee 10334 102811 12217 90594 263 eg 367 2084 284 1800 0 er 67 846 56 790 131 es 33392 605134 46310 558824 -236 fi 34168 1216403 75621 1140782 3856 fr 104833 1734802 445790 1289012 20580 ga 60 105 34 71 1 gb 2 8 0 8 0 ge 1133 5681 3004 2677 46 gg 2095 3340 1706 1634 21 gh 67 346 42 304 0 gi 795 1582 329 1253 28 gl 1210 3302 668 2634 7 gm 175 169 122 47 2 gn 46 401 150 251 0 gq 5 8 2 6 0 gr 44508 201586 47206 154380 -538 gw 2 21 1 20 0 hr 8602 54273 27415 26858 -10 hu 57765 285537 110868 174669 215 ie 22957 158292 34499 123793 10277 il 28938 286042 141277 144765 -2664 im 604 1419 711 708 -1 ir 613 4248 1231 3017 0 is 8134 1002436 937536 64900 -392 it 510282 1333774 663942 669832 0 je 2182 3395 1722 1673 21 jo 888 6157 2098 4059 28 ke 609 1888 260 1628 -1258 kg 786 7039 1468 5571 0 kz 3182 15998 3937 12061 80 lb 1400 9516 1852 7664 -1 li 6586 14478 10639 3839 5 lr 16 15 4 11 1 lt 10015 49620 10538 39082 1461 lu 5591 18842 5720 13122 -194 lv 8078 85570 55662 29908 449 ma 2330 6452 3900 2552 -12 mc 337 558 366 192 -284 mk 267 1278 279 999 -219 mt 1495 9919 2599 7320 2 ng 342 2104 1086 1018 2 nl 610534 4052604 1435681 2616923 49013 no 15753 56672 18318 38354 -227227 pl 125339 790795 203112 587683 30635 pt 19926 208721 45395 163326 -256 qa 72 458 301 157 4 ro 13827 72209 27485 44724 451 ru 144593 868428 485015 383413 -3888 sa 3127 15402 3178 12224 -13 se 79574 904480 111507 792973 -1714 si 10354 47598 13568 34030 3537 sj 1 0 0 0 0 sk 52719 216363 133577 82786 1125 sl 7 287 7 280 0 sm 945 3127 1407 1720 6 so 1 10 6 4 0 su 1330 355437 327004 28433 198 sy 4 15 4 11 0 td 62 18 7 11 0 tj 81 414 317 97 -203 tm 1328 3120 1422 1698 1 tn 33 543 286 257 3 tr 23269 185351 39514 145837 -932 ua 24938 117870 76836 41034 -28096 ug 349 391 220 171 -2028 uk 1620892 5673349 3284407 2388942 22553 va 2 9 0 9 0 ye 147 259 151 108 0 yu 12392 27323 11078 16245 80 ============================================================== 91 8003368 37484922 20693606 16791316 -175722